Shaina

“Is there any more feudal, soul eradiating experience than standing before the little window on a microwave oven watching the carousel slowly revolve your frozen block of dinner? Time spent this way might be easier than cooking but it is not enjoyable & surely not ennobling. It is to feel spiritually unemployed, useless to self & humanity.”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation

“author Véronique Vienne recalled how she had to work hard to adapt to the mandated cheerfulness of American culture when she moved from France to the States; she practiced her smile in the mirror, trying her best to look like “Miss Congenial ity,” before concluding that “in this country, the obligation we feel to conform to exalted standards of happiness can be pure misery.”
― Debra Ollivier, What French Women Know What French Women Know Of Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind

“Admittedly, my focus is on the most redeeming qualities of these creatures, but the exercise here is not to glorify or ennoble them; rather, it is, as Descartes implied, to contrast cultural values in the hopes that we might see our own in a new light.”
― Debra Ollivier, What French Women Know What French Women Know Of Love, Sex and Other Matters of the Heart and Mind

“Cheese is all about the dark side of life" - Sister Noella; aka The Cheese Nun”
― Michael Pollan, Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation